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Fedora 30 Evince Update FEDORA-2019-6316c0663e Critical Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey June 13, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security patch released for Evince targeting improper memory handling in Fedora 30, safeguarding both security and system reliability.
Security fix for CVE-2019-11459.

Summary

Evince is simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print

Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS) and Encapsulated PostScript

(EPS) files. When supported by the document format, evince allows searching

for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation,

table-of-contents bookmarks and editing of forms.

Support for other document formats such as DVI and DJVU can be added by

installing additional backends.

Security fix for CVE-2019-11459.

* Tue Jun 11 2019 Marek Kasik - 3.32.0-3

- Handle failure from TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented

- Resolves: #1716299

* Tue May 14 2019 Marek Kasik - 3.32.0-2

- Protect against NULL variable reaching strcmp()

- Resolves: #1706198

[ 1 ] Bug #1716295 - CVE-2019-11459 evince: uninitialized memory use in function tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1716295

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-6316c0663e' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 3.32.0
Release: 3.fc30
Summary: Document viewer

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